i feel like my past reviews of this have been so short because it's hard for me to articulate how much i love this film and what it means to me.
i got to see it on a big screen a few days ago, with the live organ accompaniment no less, and i still find myself just as entranced as when i first watched it.
growing up, i never really "got" silent films. i just thought they were inconvenient relicsβ¦
this is a movie that has scarcely left my mind since i first watched it. such a fascinating piece of art that i have been meaning to rewatch for quite a while at this point.
so so gross but so so good. a movie that's definitely not for everyone, in fact most would probably find it pretty gross and uncomfortable, but i find quite interesting.
it's a twisted tale of art, love, obsession, grief, pain and death, about the destructiveβ¦
what a headache (pun intended). i wanted to like this but just. didn't unfortunately. from here on out my rewatch becomes a first watch as this was about when i stopped watching as a kid. this had some okay moments (i think when the doctor pulls clara out of the dream the first time is great, and the concept of these dream crabs is just a very freaky concept in and of itself) but it also just felt poorly pacedβ¦
once again questioning why this is on letterboxd BUT I loved missy and very dark take on the cybermen (i mean honestly they're the doctor who villains that always scared me the most as a kid, the idea of being "upgraded" against your will scared the shit out of me, and still is quite unsettling). i feel like as this season went on the whole 12/clara/danny dynamic just became so convoluted where i just kind of threw my hands upβ¦
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
okay, more organized thoughts as of now
i should start off by saying that this is not and you cannot expect it to be an unbiased review for many reasons. the first is that ghost is my favorite band. ever since i started listening to them last year, their music has really ingratiated its way in my mind in way few other artists have. second is that i was literally at the show that was filmed for this, the secondβ¦
i was not preparedddd to see amy again you can't just do that to meeee
i think some parts of this get a little too overblown sci-fi action setpiece-y (for lack of a better descriptor) for my tastes (as many of my least favorite moffat-era episodes do, "a good man goes to war" is a prime example), him shooting things out the sky with his regeneration energy for example was incredibly dumb. but the way so much of this storyβ¦
